Rhubarb Cake in 2 Variations Recipe
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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Now I would like to introduce you to my rhubarb cake recipe. My fine juicy cake is a welcome pastry in the local coffee shop.
The exciting leafstalk vegetables harmonize with their fruity and sour aroma simply fantastic in cakes. The sweet meringue topping enhances the contrast.
The rhubarb sticks are available fresh seasonal in spring. TK also goes to the rest of the year – just with a little less palate fun.
One should not enjoy the sticks raw. But we don’t intend to. You can enjoy our fine pastries with pleasure.
Have fun baking and good luck!
Table of Contents
1. Shopping List for Rhubarb Cake
Our dough is a simple mixing dough with the following ingredients:
- Flour
- Butter
- Eggs
- Sugar
- Vanilla sugar
- Baking Powder
- Lemon abrasion
2. Excursus – the Palaver about the Rhubarb
I also like to associate the plant with the expression “rhubarb-rhabarb” and thus refer to the so-called frequent speakers or nonsense talkers in Germany 🙂
But we don’t do that, we just have valuable information:
- Did you know that the rhubarb plant actually comes from China? In fact, it has only existed here in Germany for 150 years.
- The plant is healthy with vitamin C, iron, potassium etc. but also contains oxalic acid, which is a calcium predator.
- The oxalic acid is lower in the red-stalked varieties. This is an information for hobby gardeners. Usually only the red stems are offered in the supermarket.
- Oxalic acid is formed more strongly when the plant blossoms.
Season is before flowering: April – June. On St. John’s Day, 24 June, rhubarb is finished…
Knows baking talent Thomas Sixt
3. Recipe Rhubarb Cake
Rhubarb cake
Baked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.
Simple recipe for rhubarb cake in two variants.
Ingredients
| Cake with rhubarb | ||
| 1 | pc | egg |
| 3 | pc | egg yolk (I use the egg yolk from the meringue here) |
| 130 | g | brown sugar |
| 1 | tsp | lemon abrasion (I’ll have an organic lemon.) |
| 1 | packet | vanilla sugar |
| 1 | tsp | Baking Powder |
| 140 | g | flour |
| 100 | g | butter (soft or slightly melted) |
| 5 | bars | rhubarb |
| Meringue topping | ||
| 3 | pc | egg white (I use the egg yolk in the cake batter.) |
| 4 | tbs | fine sugar |
| 1 | pinch | Salt |
Instruction
Prepare and bake the cake dough
Prepare
Preheat oven at 190°C hot air.
Grease the 24 cm diameter cake tin with enough butter.
Prepare rhubarb
Peel the rhubarb sticks with a peeler.
Cutting rhubarb
Cut the rhubarb into cubes from the sticks.
Prepare dough
Cleanly separate the yolks from the egg white.
Set aside the egg whites for the meringue in the refrigerator.
Beat the beaten egg plus egg yolks, sugar, lemon grated and vanilla sugar for 4 minutes with a hand mixer or blender until foamy.
Stir dough
Add baking powder, flour and butter to the mixture and stir for another 3 minutes.
Pour in dough
Pour the cake mixture into the baking tin.
Cover dough
Spread the rhubarb cubes on the cake batter.
Bake cake
Now the topped cake can be placed in the preheated oven.
Cake test
After the baking time of 40-45 minutes the cake can be taken out of the oven.
To make sure that the dough is well baked, I prick the cake dough with a piece of wood (e.g. wooden shashlik skewer).
If no liquid dough sticks, the cake is perfect.
Otherwise the cake has to bake even longer.
Cake variant 1
You can now let the cake cool down in variation 1 and serve it sprinkled with icing sugar or venture to variation 2 and add the meringue as a wonderful finish.
Serve
Serve the sliced, simple cake with a rhubarb compote or with some colourful fruits.
Mint is very nice as decoration.
Prepare cake with meringue
Prepare egg white
Using a hand mixer, mix the egg white with fine sugar plus a pinch of salt at the highest setting.
Beat the mixture until it is firm to cut.
Cover cake
Use a piping bag or bag with spout to spread the beaten egg white on the finished cake and put it back in the oven at top heat 230°C.
Cake au gratin
Please stand in front of the stove!
When the meringue has taken on a slight colouring, remove the cake from the oven quickly and let it cool down.
Serve
Cut the cake and serve it nicely on a plate with garnish like fruits or compote.
Bon appetit!
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Courses
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4. Calories and Nutritional Values
5. Variants Tip – Rhubarb Cake Bake With or Without Meringue
Egg whites or meringue are a wonderful thing for cakes with slightly sour toppings/fillings such as gooseberry, red currant or even rhubarb.
It is important for beaten egg white that no fat gets into the bowl when the eggs are broken. This means that yolk and egg white must be separated cleanly.
A pinch of salt gives the beaten egg white stiffness and stability!
Means cook Thomas Sixt
The nice thing is, a “over whipping” of beaten egg white is not possible. The beaten egg white is perfect if you can turn the bowl of beaten egg white in the air without anything falling out.
6. Further Baking Ideas
Lemon Cake
Easy Apple Pie Recipe
Fruit Cake Base Recipe for Your Easy German Sunday Cake
Chocolate Tart Recipe with Buckwheat
Plum Tarte Recipe for 3 Variations
Plum Crumble Recipe
Zwetschgendatschi Recipe for German Plum Cake
Plum Cake Recipe with Yeast Dough
Cake Pops Recipe
Preparing Cake Pops with Cake Leftovers
Marble Cake Muffins, on Request with Topping
Marble Cake with Glaze Recipe
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